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"The Treaty of Lisbon, which is 96 per cent identical to the draft Constitutional Treaty, was rejected in the referendum in Ireland. Prior to that, the draft Constitutional Treaty was rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands.
The majority in this Parliament refuses to acknowledge its political losses. This is an outrageous crime against democratic principles and an equally outrageous example of the arrogance of power that characterises cooperation in the EU.
Mr Leinen’s report on the new roles of the European Parliament includes steps towards a United States of Europe – as implied by the Treaty of Lisbon – and also proposes that the EU now moves into the area of education as well, including sport and so on.
It would have been desirable if the report had instead dealt with the problem of this Parliament’s lack of democratic legitimacy. We are once again heading for an election in which voter turnout is predicted to be very low. The electorate in the Member States still feels little involvement with the super-centralist European Parliament. For as long as the political debates of representative democracy are focused on the elections to the national parliaments, it should be the national parliaments that are the highest decision-making bodies within the Union – not the European Parliament.
I have voted against the draft report."@en1
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